title: Last hunter-gatherers and first farmers of Europe.
abstract: The Neolithisation of Europe has seen the transformation of hunting-gathering societies into farming communities. At least partly exogenous in its origins, this process led to major transformations in many aspects of life-styles, such as social structures, land use or diet. It involved the arrival of new human populations and gave way to the importation, intentional or unwanted of many non-European animal and plant species. It also provoked important changes in interactions between humans and natural environments. In many respects, it set the foundations of long-term European peasantry developments and prefigured later agropastoral colonizations. As such, it must be seen as a major turning point in the history of European populations.
authors.affiliation: UMR 7209 CNRS, archéozoologie, archéobotanique, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, Paris, France. atresset@mnhn.fr
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tresset
authors.forename: Jean-Denis
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Vigne
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000266:history*; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D000883:Anthropology; D002417:Cattle; D004285:Dogs; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D010944:Plants; D013552:Swine; D044465:White People